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"Knew what, Eileen?" "What I meant." "You meant that I am hors de concours." "I didn't!" "But I am, child. I was, long ago." She looked up: "Do you really think that, Captain Selwyn? If you do I am glad." He laughed outright. "You are glad that I'm safely past the spooning age?" he inquired, moving forward. She halted: "Yes.
It might be very pleasant for themselves to sit "spooning" in the garden on a mild May evening, but if they prolonged their enjoyment beyond eight o'clock, the hostel supper-bell would ring, and any girl not in her place at the table would lose a mark for punctuality. "He" on the other side of the window, was waxing sentimental about old times and bygone days.
When all is ready the two leaders stand by their respective rows, each is given a large spoon, and when told to "go," each one spoons up the eggs, one at a time, and carries them to the basket at the end of the line. The one who succeeds in spooning up all his eggs first wins for his side.
He had with him all the tackle necessary for spooning pike, a sport the novelty and success of which had hugely commended it the year before to those Esau-like instincts Murewell had so much developed in him. And now oh the weariness of the August warmth, and the long stretches of sandy road!
And then, as to the spooning, it was partie égale, the lady was no worse off than the gentleman. If there were by any hazard and this he was disposed to doubt 'affections' at stake, the man 'stood to lose' as much as the woman.
They sat down to the table just as she had sat opposite to Cap'n Abe the evening before. She thought, for a moment, that Cap'n Amazon was going to ask a blessing as her other uncle had. But no, he began spooning the mush into a rather capacious mouth. Into the room from the rear strolled Diddimus, the tortoise-shell cat.
Grant were presumably spooning in a garden at a rather late hour."
A good fat bed-fellow was a luxury not to be despised and on coldest nights, "spooning" was the prevailing fashion with covering well tucked under. When one wanted to turn over, it was necessary for the other to do the same. Sometimes they would do so by word of command as if at drill with "one time and two motions."
The ship lay very broad off, so we thought it better spooning before the sea, than trying or hulling. We reefed the fore-sail and set him, and hauled aft the fore-sheet; the helm was hard a-weather. The ship wore bravely. We belayed the fore down-haul; but the sail was split, and we hauled down the yard, and got the sail into the ship, and unbound all the things clear of it.
Most usually the process is that voluptuous contact and revery which, in English slang, is called "spooning." From first to last there need not be any explicit explanations, proposals, or declarations on either side, and neither party is committed to any relationship with the other beyond the period devoted to flirtage.
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